I don’t do well with adversity. And I’m finding myself less able to handle multitasking than I used to be. So when anything goes wrong, or life gets extra busy, I find myself unable to write.

Maybe, however, it’s more a case of motivation than the problem of my brain changing as I get older. Here on the 28th of the month I have 2 books sales. One of those was the one I mentioned in a previous post. The other was a copy of Documenting America that sold in Japan. So I’ve now sold books in three countries.

That should have been a shot in the arm. And it was—for about 10 minutes. Then I remembered that that makes only two sales for the month. That I have difficulty in shifting gears weighed on me. This week I wrote almost nothing at all. Busyness at work and at home, and my wife’s desire to just have some recreation time this week gave me little time and less gumption to write. So much easier to recreate.

I’m not quite sure how to interpret this. Is my enthusiasm for writing waning? Or is something else going on. These next few weeks will tell.